There's a much deeper potential Ethical Holly Shit here, this is a big can of worms being opened. That of synthetic (read "made up") with unverifiable claims to credibility, through AI and a real data set.

The reason medical data is needed in research is to _verify_ the effectiveness of treatments, drugs, or patterns that are later ultimately used to justify treatment plans or decisions about what medicines to legalize, prescribe and use.

Feeding real data to AI and then asking it to "make up a data set that's the same" breaks the link between real hard data collected by physicians and clinicians, which is _verifiable_ and _trustable_. There is no way aside from repeating the work with real data sets to verify that the data in the "synthetic data" set is representative of the real world.

If this synthetic data set is used to make decisions, there will be a significant risk that can be introduced in the AI process, as 1) there is no verification possible and 2) the potential to "ask AI" to "help clean up the data" raises potentials for either open abuse, or accidental skewing of the data. Even non malicious but hopeful AI prompts may cause the AI to deliver the results the researcher or pharmaceutical company "wants to find".

That could lead to incorrect results or desired or not which would lead to bad decisions about patient treatment or diagnosis potentially leading to wasted money at best and patient harm at worst.

Ethically, I think this is standing unroped on a slippery slope uphill of a cliff...

but he'll happily take "investors" and help with his crypto coin $Trump.

Transactional presidents are so much easier to deal with if you're a billionaire crypto bro...

It's also convenient if you could use a pardon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

As a licensed Engineer in North America, who also has a Business degree, having working both in Canada and in Europe, as well as having exposure to China through travel...

Engineering as a profession has the same recognition as law and medicine in Europe... In China, Engineering is neck in neck with Medicine. In North America and in the UK engineers are looked down on by other professionals and management.

When I worked in Europe as an Engineer in tech companies Management was made up of Engineers that had worked there way up, many of them had Phds in Engineering. Engineers in society have good paying jobs and its a desired profession.

Decisions were made not just based on quarterly financials, but with leaders that understood innovation, value, and technology as well as the financials at the table.
Planning and R&D in Germany where I worked and in China have budgets and time frames of years if not decades. Companies compete not on cost but on quality and innovation.

I think North America is being left behind at the moment in a number of areas, and will continue to do so until it starts thinking long term again and investing in science and engineering talent and projects.

This David Mayer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He certainly is well enough positioned to perhaps have someone working to make sure he's forgotten.

Anyone facing this issue where they work? What have you looked at?

(fingers crossed first post).

Tell him to go to apply to university in Germany. It's free including for foreign nationals, and they often provide a stipend to cover cost of living.

Hard to believe but, Germany does this as they get the best and brightest, and have figured out that if just 1/2 stay 5 years the contributions they make to the Germany Economy pay back the cost of education.

https://www.studying-in-german...

There are literally hundreds of emulator boxes.

I'm not buying an overpriced low quality one from the Trump shitposter. Palmer Luckey can fuck himself.

I think the SourceForge acquisition was the closest riff to an IPO ever had. The numbers were never high enough or compelling enough for Slashdot to IPO. The D ice, B IZ X, and Stac k Exch a nge acquisitions seem to be the only financial action Slashdot will ever see.

Edit: The correct spellings of one or more of the entities above triggered the lameness filter -- I guess some topics shall not be discussed on /. Wondering how long this post will be up after I press Submit...

It'll be interesting to witness what happens to Reddit after IPO. I suspect this might be an IPO engineered for the investors to cash out as much as possible, and we'll see a return to private ownership and all outstanding shares bought by some entity within 3-5 years. Maybe as part of Springer or some other media conglomerate.

Cheers!

It's been a while. I wonder what the criteria will be. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth VA Linux went public, Slashdot was part of the IPO frenzy, and some of us got the equivalent to ~$12k worth of VA Linux shares, free to trade after 6 months. The criteria back then was that our email had to appear on a Linux kernel or widely used tool commit for the distribution VA Linux used in their systems. It wasn't life changing money, but I remember it fondly because up until then all the payment or bonuses I ever received were for closed source, commercial or enterprise software development.

It'd be interesting to see what criteria Reddit uses for their IPO shares recipients. If they go by karma alone there'll be quite a few OnlyFans content creators who'll see the green. Hopefully it's some combination of karma, actual participation, account age, etc. in addition to whatever securities laws restrictions are in place (e.g. for VA Linux all recipients had to be US-based).

Cheers!

"....China turns to nuclear power to try to meet carbon emissions goals....."

No, this is not why. They are not trying to meet any carbon emission goals. They have no goals, other than growing the economy and making it sanction proof.

Most American military believes that China's air quality has gotten so bad that the Chinese government is afraid of creating the first air quality government overthrow.

They are trying to control carbon emissions to keep from being defenestrated.

Where does this crazy idea come from, that the Chinese are fully sold on the climate emergency

You can meet carbon goals for reasons other than the environment.

Where do people get this wishful thinking about China from?

Do you actually get a towel to wring while you plead, for authenticity?

There's no such thing as "americanesium."

"But but I just took the"

nobody cares. Your comment doesn't make sense, and theirs does.

Duh. This is a variant of a typical "Nigerian prince" scam.

They actually made the ship. It's a running nuclear reactor that delivers power in the real world. No Nigerian Prince scam has ever built a working nuclear reactor, little buddy.

The completely unreasonable proposition is a feature to filter out everyone, but the most moronic investors.

Uh. The Chinese government is doing this, and isn't taking investors. Be less paranoid.

What's unreasonable about putting a nuclear reactor on a ship? America's been doing this since 1952. It's 2023.

Mostly I'm on board with your excellent comment. A few things though.

However, on average, despite being transformed into uranium, it's radioactive products are on average shorter lived

It's not clear why you believe this. This is not correct. Uranium decays the same way regardless of how it was created.

But TLDR: it's about the same as traditional reactors.

The LFTR advantage isn't a real thing. It's a youtube myth.

There's no real problems with class 3 PWR in an engineering sense. It's safe, it's reliable, it's well understood. America has had more than half of the world's meltdowns - over 100 - and a reactor has never killed a person here. There's a good argument that nuclear power is not just the safest power technology, but indeed the safest technology of any kind, ever invented.

LFTR claims four advantages:

1. Safer. Horseshit. We've never run one and we have no idea what its safety characteristics are. Back in the 1950s we thought PWR couldn't melt down, too. Lars and Ed are just unimaginative; it's not very difficult to think of serious problems beginning with the infiltration tank cracking. Go ask Cavan; he can go on for ages about unconsidered risks.
2. Cheaper. Again, horseshit. We had built 20 nuclear plants for the price we've spent researching this one. Nuclear plants have been made by individual teenagers. You might as well spend ten billion dollars inventing a cheaper $5 watch. You will never build enough of them to pay the delta off.
3. Small modular scale. ***Horseshit***. Nothing in engineering stops anyone from building PWRs at that scale. The reason we don't do it is economic: the structure of the legal overhead from auditing and validating a plant makes them not cost effective. That's why France and South Korea regularly build smaller plants than anyone else - they have advanced auditing schemes that do not require anywhere near as much pointless overhead.
4. Factory buildable. Well, this would be a nice advantage, except y'know, I've been hearing Lars talk about converting a shipyard for more than 20 years, and work hasn't begun, yet. A factory to build regular PWR could be built much faster than that, including replacing Japan Steelworks, if anyone actually wanted to.

They solved a bunch of problems that aren't the problems the industry faces; they built a device that needs a legal and regulatory regieme that doesn't exist; and now they can't figure out why they can't get customers.

And you think those deep brains are going to solve this?

Probably a bit less, because you can basically burn the thorium completely, where with Uranium you still have like 90% of the fuel remaining when you pull it out as waste.

You seem to be forgetting about breeder reactors.

Neither. You can handle yellowcake with your bare hands safely. They wear gloves to protect the fuel, not the person.

You know your relatives are eating off of uranium plates, right? It's called "fiestaware," and they're eating trace amounts with every forkfull of ceramic dust

It's unfortunate that slashdot has fallen so far that any time someone with no experience in a field doubts something, they say something sanctimonious like "can't tell if trolling or wrong"

that sort of behavior will severely limit you in the long run, tailor

You conveniently overlooked the 20 years of red-tape profiteering and corruption

That's probably because those things aren't real. I also ignored the vampire squad .

It's practically a patented American budget-destroying process

I don't suppose you have a single specific real world example of this moaning you're doing that you're able to give evidence of?